Saturday, July 12th, 06:00 HST

A perfect night of sailing. With the moon almost full, perfect temperature, the ideal wave setup this may have been some of the best sailing ever. We felt that we sailed fast all night and that we kept Pegasus 77 on track, pumping and grinding for every wave.

The morning roll call confirmed our intuition: We gained another 5 miles to the finish on our competition. We had a good day, sailing 349 nautical miles point to point for an average of 14.5 knots. Faster and farther than Pyewacket for the sixth consecutive day. In average, we sailed 3 degrees lower (265 deg vs. 268 deg) and 5 miles further. Lower and faster.

A happy Pegasus 77 team is having breakfast. Jeff is cooking.

Here is a screen capture for Deckman running on my laptop. The main part of the screen is divided into two tiled windows. One is a wind tape that displays the wind velocity and direction. The second window has a chart of the Hawaiian Islands with our approach waypoint. to Honolulu. You can see the two blue laylines. We are the green boat on the right and you can also see all laylines. We are now 590 nautical miles away from Honolulu, bearing 255 degrees magnetic.